Erica Benner

Erica Benner works on political philosophy and the history of ideas. She has special interests in ideas about self-determination and empire since ancient times; ancient Greek philosophy and history, especially Plato and Thucydides; Machiavelli's ethics; and philosophical traditions of ironic writing.

She has written widely on the ethics and intellectual origins of nationalism, including Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford UP 1995) and essays in the Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy and the Oxford Handbook on Nationalism (2012). Her most recent book was Machiavelli’s Ethics (Princeton UP 2009: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9041.html). She is currently working on Machiavelli's Codes: a new reading of the Prince (Oxford UP), Be Like the Fox: Conversations with Machiavelli (Penguin/UK, Basic Books/US), and Thucydides' Moral and Political Philosophy (Princeton UP).

Benner previously taught at Oxford and the London School of Economics, and has held fellowships/visiting professorships at the Freie Universität, the Central European University, Warsaw University, and Tulane University.

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